Local station KTVU reported that the incident occurred when the object fell off a truck in front of the BMW, bounced along the road and then through the car’s windshield.

He’s not the only motorist who has recently had a lucky escape though.

In the Czech Republic, a train smashed through a truck at a rail crossing in Frydek Mistek this week leaving the truck driver with only minor injuries. None of train passengers were injured in the incident.

In 2012, a four-year-old child was mere feet away from death after falling from a car at a busy intersection in Wenzhou city in China's southeastern Zhejiang province. The child’s father jumped from his moving car to rescue his daughter.

In the same year, a Manchester based company was fined £12,000 ($18,200) after a reversing truck almost killed a customer who was standing at its warehouse. The man suffered bruising and had to take leave from work for several weeks following the incident.

Security cameras in Turkey recorded a one-year-old toddler who also had a close encounter with death in 2010 after he crawled onto a busy highway in the southern town of Antalya. A passing motorist stopped and brought the child to safety before police reunited the boy with his mother.